Word: confessore
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Charlie has been around so long, kept his confidences so faithfully, and knows so much about men and affairs that he has come to be a sort of father confessor, valued as much for the counsel he can give as for the stories he can write. He avoids press conferences (except King's) because he usually knows what is going to be said and is already busy writing it up. He writes in pencil in a barely legible scrawl, and in an unvaryingly matter-of-fact, elliptical style. Of his adeptness in drawing out important people, a Cabinet minister...
...Maugham is such a subtle old sinner that it is a pleasure to hear him in the confessional, even if he goes there more to disarm his confessor than for the good of his own soul. The Absolute. His hero, who rambles through the lives of all the other characters, is Larry Darrel, a Chicago boy whose ready-made certainties were buried in World War I. He comes back from war unwilling to go to college, unwilling to settle down and marry wealthy Isabel Bradley-even indifferent to the Parisian fleshpots offered him by Isabel's expatriate Uncle Elliott...
...sang High Mass, marking the 36th anniversary of his ordination in the Episcopal Church's priesthood. For a quarter of a century nervous, bespectacled, balding Father Dodd, 64, has been rector of the parish (224 communicants). He is also an actor, as well as technical adviser and father confessor to the film industry...
...must have the simplicity of the confessor. We all have need of it in different degrees-often to shake off our deep-seated egoism . . . and to consecrate ourselves to a truly free spirit and all our energies to the greatest of duties...
...hour lunch last week with President Roosevelt. That day and the next he conferred at length and stormily with Harry Hopkins, John Daniel Hertz (ex-Yellow Cab magnate and now with Army's Motor Transport Division), who is a friend of Kelly's, a father confessor to Hopkins; Federal Lender Jesse Jones, and other key insiders. What Mayor Kelly said was not reported in the press. It would have made big headlines if it had been...